9-Swayzee HS 65 Liberty Central HS 61, 3/15/1964 Marion Regional (Indiana), (Credit: Paul Luchter)
8-Bud Runkle scored 26 points, including six free throws in the eighth overtime, as Schuylkill Haven defeated Pius X 75-65 in a game that took eight overtimes to settle Friday night at Northwestern High School. The District 11 Class A quarterfinal game started shortly after 8 p.m. and ended about 3 hours later. The teams played four-minute overtime periods, with about a one-minute break in between each one. (February 26, 1995, Allentown Morning Call) (Submitted by Phil Pinto)
8-Plymouth-Whitemarsh boys' basketball team defeated Springfield (Montco) in eight overtimes. (1972) (Chuck Langerman)
8-From Kentucky: Lowes High in Western Kentucky played St. Marys High School of Paducah in 1978 and the game went 8 overtimes. (Credit: Richard Dunn )
7-The Huntingdon Bearcats (PA) & Central Mountain Wildcats (PA) Junior Varsity teams played a 7 OT game on 2/4/11 the game ended with Huntingdon winning 85-80. Thanks Randy Ritchey
7-From Wisconsin: Dodgeville high played Mt Horeb high in Nov , 1966. The game went 7 overtimes and Dodgeville won it on a layup by Randy Jackson , the Dodgeville point guard. The final score was Dodgeville 57 and Mt Horeb 55. (Randy Jackson karebear3@charter.net )
7-From Indiana:Last year (2010), I want to say... February, Fishers High School Lost in 7 Overtimes to Westfield High School at Fishers High School, located in Fishers, Indiana. I was a witness to the game! I'll let you know the actual date in the next few days, but that's a record for sure! jhglitter64@aim.com
The
clock is ticking!
The
bus is waiting!Credit: Rob Morris robmorris@hotmail.com)
6-From Montana:I was engineer at a radio station this evening (Jan 20th 2012), Wolf Point Wolves vs. Plentywood Wildcats that went 6 overtimes. That 13 overtimes is AMAZING! Though, the play by play broadcaster, Tim Zimmer at our game is guessing that the 6 OT game is the Montana high school record. (Credit: Lee Allmer)
6-Conneaut Valley 45 Cochranton 43, on a Casey Baker drive to the hoop for a lay-up with 3.1 seconds to play, allowing the Indians to escape with a 45-43 win (The Meadville Tribune, 2/7/09) (Credit: Kyle Welker)
6-From California: Granada High School (Livermore, CA) Holiday Invitational Tournament.>:
12/ 8/11: In six overtimes, Oakland (CA) Skyline defeated San Jose (CA) Santa Theresa by a score of 97-94 at the (Credit: Chuck Rasbold, the scoreboard operator for the game.
Article HERE
6-From Wisconsin, January 3, 2014
dstras142@aol.com
5- From Arizona: Florence High School (Arizona) defeated Northwest
Christian 65-64 in five overtimes in the first round of the State Basketball
Tournament. This is in Division III in Arizona.
(Credit: Chris Knutsen, 2/14/2012,
5-1991, Jersey Shore vs Shikellamy in
District semifinals at Williamsport High. 5 OT’s.
5-On February 3, 1977,
5-Jan 15, 2010, New Brighton outlasted Riverside in a
thrilling Class AA Section 2 contest, upending the visiting Panthers, 82-80,
in five overtimes. Josh McFrazier scored 31 points for New Brighton
and Mason Marion netted 31 for Riverside. (Pittsburgh
Post Gazette)
5-I broadcasted a five(!) Yes, 5, overtime game January 19, 2010 for our local radio station. (Our newspaper erroneously reported 6, but that's a whole other story.) Southern Columbia was playing at Central Columbia. End of regulation 36-36. 1st OT 38-38. 2nd 42-42. 3rd 45-45. 4th 47-47. 5th Central 53-51. The winning basket was made by Central's Tanner Harmon, who had played ALL 52 minutes, but had not scored a single point until his basket with 20 seconds remaining in the 5th overtime for the win! (Credit Todd Davis)
But the score is tied!!!
2/`6/10, Niwot (Colo.) High School defeated Roosevelt High School 104-101 in four overtimes in the the Northern Conference Tournament Consolation bracket semi-finals. (Credit: Bruce W. (Biff) Warren, Niwot, CO)
This game was played in the Big East Tournament in Madison
Square Garden
and
gave rise to the
"Six in the city" t-shirt
which became popular.
4-Feb. 9, 1988- Knoch 69, Hampton 68 in 4
OT's
Game was for first place in old Section 6-AAA of the WPIAL (PIAA District 7).
Score was tied 54-all at the end of regulation. Matt Dunaway got winning basket
on a jumper with 28 seconds left in fourth overtime.
(Credit:
George Guido - geoguido@earthlink.net)
4-On Dec. 9, 1989, Valley defeated Highlands, 61-54, in four
overtimes. It was the consolation game of the former Alle-Kiski Valley Tip-off
Tournament at Highlands HS. It was only the second game in the high school
career of Valley's Tom Pipkins, who scored 16 points. Pipkins would go on to
become the WPIAL's all-time scoring leader with 2,838 points. (George
Guido, Tarentum Valley News Dispatch)
4-Shanksville-Stoneycreek defeated Father Geibel in four overtimes to win
the 1976-77 PIAA Class A Semifinals (i.e., the Western Finals) held at Hershey
Arena. That was the last year the PIAA sent four teams in each
classification to Hershey. Shanksville-Stoneycreek lost the PIAA finals
the next day; Father Geibel also lost the consolation game. (Credit:
John Reeder)
4-Portville (NY) beat Oswayo Valley 64-61 in four overtimes. (12/27/07)
(Chris Rossetti, Co-Editor D9Sports.com)
Syracuse
sets a Big East record, defeating
Connecticut 127-117 in six overtimes on Thursday March 12, 2009. The NCAA
record is 7 overtimes. (information credit: Tom Prystal)
4-The Abington Heights Comets defeated the Williamsport Millionaires 86-77 in four-overtimes (2/24/08) in the District 2-4 Class AAAA title game. At one point in this game, Abington Heights had converted 21 straight foul shots.(Williamsport Sun Gazette) (Courtesy EJ Murphy)
4-Andrew Niederlander's 31 points helped host Portersville Christian outlast Cheswick Christian, 60-58, in four overtimes. Tyler Knupp scored 24 points for Cheswick Christian. 12/14/11 (Post Gazette)
Williamsport
bench players and support personnel brace themselves at the end of the
Milliionaires’ loss to Abington Heights at Berwick Middle School.
(Williamsport Sun Gazette,
2/24/08)